Title:

Introduction:

Materials & Methods:

Results:
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Figure 1. Digital representation of the LB Agar plate with ampicillin, soc media, LB media,
organism: BL21 (DE3), and plasmid: pGEM-gbr22. Grown in the 37C incubator overnight.
Bacterial colonies are purple dots.


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Figure 2. Digital representation of the LB Agar plate used as control. No DNA present.
Antibiotic used: ampicillin. Organism: BL21 (DE3). Left overnight in the 37C incubator.
No growth observed.

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Figure 3. Digital representation of Agar plate used as “Fun plate”. No DNA or antibiotic
present, just LB media and Agar. Colonies have a yellow like color.
Growth after 24 hours in the incubator.

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Figure 4. Digital representation of Agar Plate used as “Fun Plate”. No DNA or
antibiotic present, jus LB media and Agar. Colonies have a yellow like color,
Growth after 3 days in the incubator.

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Figure 5. Digital representation of the Erlenmeyer flasks containing 25mL of LB media,
ampicillin, and bacteria BL21(DE3) after 36 hours in the 37C shaking incubator.

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Figure 6. Resuspended pellet in 1xPBS solution. The pellet weighed 0.51g.
Organism: BL21(DE3). Plasmid: pGEM-gbr22.

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Figure 7. Digital representation of elution 2 (left) and elution 1 (right)
resuspended in 1x PBS and 250mM imidazole in 15ml conical tubes.
Elution 1 – 5ml. Elution 2 – 4.5ml.

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Figure 8. Absorbance vs wavelength graph for Elution 1 (p-gbr22) at 280nm.
Obtained using nanodrop spectrophotometer.

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Figure 9. Absorbance vs wavelength graph for Elution 1 (p-gbr22) at 574 (black plot) and at 280 (blue plot).
Obtained using nanodrop spectrophotometer.

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Figure 10. Polyacrylamide gel for Samples 1 through 6 before drying and after staining. Protein pgbr22.

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Figure 11. Dry polyacrylamide gel for Samples 1 through 6. Protein pgbr22.

Discussion:

Conclusions:

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